Editorial December 23, 1933 Issue

Infinite Progression

Violet Ker Seymer

Real progress is spiritual, a state of eternal unfoldment; and for Mind's infinite ideas there is infinite progression. This is so because there is no beginning or ending to the impartations of infinite Love and their everlasting unfoldment in man and the universe. For this reason the Christian Scientist, while at all times grateful for evidences of his advancing understanding, should beware of limiting his conception of progress to improvement in outward circumstances, in health, opportunity, or even in character. Spiritually understood, progress does not consist in the emergence from error into truth, for the unreal cannot become real, the evil good, or the material spiritual. Progress cannot be gauged or understood from a negative starting point. "A progressive life," our Leader writes in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 117), "is the reality of Life that unfolds its immortal Principle." In God's infinite image progress and unfoldment are unceasing.

What bearing has this glorious fact on the growth of the Christian Scientist? It has this bearing. Accepting Life and the omnipotence of immortal Principle as the basis of man's being, the student of Christian Science refutes the lie that material handicaps of birth, culture, environment, or opportunity can delay or curtail his spiritual progress. If he loyally and without equivocation accepts the scientific fact that progress is spiritual, he will, in deference to the divine influence of Christ, Truth, in his consciousness, surrender his personal belief in limitation or handicap, past or present. This will lead him on to the heights of divine Mind wherein all is, always has been, and always will be spiritual, pure, and holy.

Thrusting aside the deterrents of pride, doubt, shame, the student will turn for enlightenment to divine Principle with all his timid fears, his questionings, and will rejoice in its assurance that all that is real is now and everlastingly perfect. Holding open his consciousness to the heaven of spiritual progress, the student notes with encouragement the falling away of disease and discord, false traits and indulgences, and the appearing and evidence of his true identity as God's image. Spiritual man is fully conscious of his divine identity and is expressing it.

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